Mahe Zehra Husain a.k.a MZ is a trained mathematician and data scientist with a passion for creativity and color since a very young age.
At the age of nineteen she started her Masters in Pure Mathematics and in 2008 left for the University of Texas at Austin to pursue her Masters degree in Operations Research. She scored a 4.0 in three out of four semesters while working on her art E-Books which are now available on amazon.
After returning from her masters she joined FiveRivers Technology as Manager Operations and Co-founder of pepper.pk which was FRTs first mobile app unit. In 2011 under her leadership and UI/UX team, FRT started creating world number one apps. Several newspapers and channels highlighted their work and their team started working for names like Samsung and local tel-co giants.
She introduced data science analytics, Virtual Reality (VR), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) at FRT and was the key person in building its team and grew the team and revenue 300%. She became FRTs first female CEO in 2017, one of a handful of tech CEOs in Pakistan.
She holds a consulting position as Chief Data Scientist at Ballogy and she also works as managing editor of a US based AI Magazine “Cognitive Times.”
Since a young age Husain believes she has a chaotic brain that runs in 50 different directions at the same time! So she harnessed her creative side and indulged herself into arts, crafts and painting. She's been using her right brain to balance her left brain dominated life and she says it brings balance to her life and makes her feel alive. She runs her creative blog and has released several creative e-books and courses some of which have been best sellers on Amazon a number of times. She also exhibited at the Maker Faire in NYC with her new stencil product and is Pakistan’s first Certified Zentangle Teacher.
Husain says that she wants to empower the youth of Pakistan specially young women, so she has started working on an entrepreneurial book which will be launched this year in 2021 and is aiming towards constructing a multipurpose campus in Lahore which will act as a more inviting and refreshing workspace along with a learning hub for young tech entrepreneurs. She is currently working on some cutting edge data science projects while running her e-book publishing label MZ Creates on the side.
